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Algeria
Population: 36.1 mn.
GDP: $158 bn.
Debt: $4.7 bn.
Overview:

Localised protests will continue as the government attempts conciliation. Public expenditure could rise by 25% or more in consequence. Meaningful reforms ahead of May's parliamentary elections are unlikely. 

Algeria Country Report


 

 


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  • Vol 48 No 9
  •  27th April 2007

Under attack

Algeria's Islamist underground is largely home grown but benefits from foreign attachments

  • Vol 48 No 9
  •  27th April 2007

Khalifa in court

The celebrities were missing from Algeria's 'trial of the century' at Blida Criminal Court, when Judge Fatiha Brihimi sentenced fugitive banker Rafik Abdelmoumen Khalifa to life imprisonment. The creator of El Khalifa Group was still in exile in Britain a...

  • Vol 47 No 3
  •  3rd February 2006

The President's generals

The President may be back but succession rumours are festering

  • Vol 46 No 6
  •  18th March 2005

Abdelaziz of Arabia

President Bouteflika wants the Arab summit to underline his domination of regional politics

  • Vol 45 No 16
  •  6th August 2004

Military matters

The 3 August announcement that Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Mohamed Lamari had resigned for health reasons (for treatment in Spain for an eye condition) came after weeks of negotiation. The Presidency let it be known that President Abdelaziz Boutefli...

  • Vol 45 No 6
  •  19th March 2004

A man for election seasons

Algerians dislike their clever President but they'll probably re-elect him

  • Vol 45 No 6
  •  19th March 2004

Le Para moves east

On 9-10 March, fighting in Chad's Tibesti region, near the Niger border, indicated that fighters from Algeria's biggest active Islamist militia, the Groupe Salafiste de Prédication et de Combat (GSPC, Fundamentalist Group for Preaching and Fighting...

  • Vol 45 No 5
  •  5th March 2004

Squeezing Le Para

The Algerian security services' relaxed approach to the growing United States' military presence in the Sahel reflects their concern at the number of arms in circulation, especially in traditional partners Mali and Mauritania.

  • Vol 45 No 4
  •  20th February 2004

Desert shadows

Reports of an ambush at the end of January somewhere between 'north of Tamanrasset' in southern Algeria and northern Mali point to the complex and lethal war games under way across Africa's belt of Muslim states. The shadowy geography derives from the fac...

  • Vol 44 No 21
  •  24th October 2003

Split parties, stout leaders

President Bouteflika looks vulnerable ahead of the elections as politicians fall out

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